We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The solution's most valuable features are AI and root cause analysis."
"The product allows us to build preferred/customized business transactions to track complex transactions. UEM (User Experience Monitoring) agents track user experience on webRequests. The advantage is that Dynatrace correlates the measures on the devices with those on the backend servers, giving us an end-to-end view of the transaction, from the user's phone deep into the backend servers."
"Its AI can tell us when something is wrong, including the impacts and the root cause."
"Of the entire stack, DC RUM and DT SaaS are definitely the most asked for in our offering catalog."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of application performance."
"Transparency and visibility into application performance, errors, incidents, etc. helps to foster a collaborative environment."
"Helps in managing capacity planning, services performance, and tuning database performance and optimizing queries."
"It has enabled us to have a deeper insight into our application availability and performance."
"The ability to decrypt traffic and the abundance of filters available are both valuable features."
"It's easy to troubleshoot issues because there's a large online community."
"It has a good syntax to put the commands in and get information out of."
"The most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."
"It is a stable product. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"Wireshark is very user-friendly; even someone with basic IT knowledge can use it."
"Wireshark's best features are that it lets us see what traffic is in the network and what data should be encrypted."
"The filter option provided by Wireshark is its most valuable feature...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Its infra monitoring is not that good. They are mainly into the APM environment, such as network monitoring and other things. Strong end-to-end infrastructure monitoring is missing. SNMP monitoring is currently not very good in this solution."
"The documentation of Dynatrace needs to be improved. There needs to be a more detailed description and additional examples for background understanding for beginners trying to use it."
"In AppMon, the performance could be improved. That is the one thing I am most interested in."
"On the one hand we have Dynatrace, on the other hand, we have AppMon. We know Dynatrace is more powerful, with a lot of functions, but there are some core functions AppMon has that Dynatrace needs. Our main use is AppMon and we have not gone to Dynatrace because we don't have those specific functions that we need."
"We're developing more and more microservices and, each time, for an AppMon license, you have to deploy it, you have to configure it, you to get charged for it. It's very time-consuming."
"In the next release, I would like to see some new reports and more tiles on the Dashboard."
"I would like better plugin support, because they are constantly asking us to do plugins, saying "Yeah, we can do that. Use this plugin." Then, the moment something goes wrong with that plugin, I have no way of getting help."
"To improve in Dynatrace the log analytics, this is the first thing that has to be enabled."
"You need some basic knowledge to work with Wireshark. Maybe it could be more user-friendly just for new users. Just for the new generation."
"Sometimes I need to use tcpdump when I need to check the packets on CLI."
"With Wireshark, you cannot download and utilize the packet in automation."
"Wireshark is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX."
"The product has been using the same GUI for many years."
"Wireshark could be improved by adding more monitoring features."
"The product is great but I wish there were more of an emphasis on the command line tools."
"I wish the filters were a little bit more prepopulated."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Colasoft Capsa, SolarWinds NPM and Broadcom Network Flow Analysis.
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